"Xueqi, are you alright?"
Upon hearing the sound, Jiang Chenghao rushed over.
Upon seeing Jiang Xueqi fall to the ground, he immediately went over to help her up.
After Jiang Xueqi regained her footing, Jiang Chenghao glared at Jiang Li and said, "Jiang Li, what did Xueqi do to offend you that you're treating her like this? Are you determined to completely ruin our family before you're satisfied?"
"How did I treat her? I'm curious about that too." Jiang Li looked coldly at Jiang Chenghao, her tone full of sarcasm. "And... how did I interfere in your family's affairs? You need evidence to back up your words, not just empty talk!"
Jiang Chenghao roared angrily, "Jiang Li, how can you be so shameless? You pushed Xueqi down the stairs, and now you're asking me what you did?"
Jiang Xueqi raised her head, her beautiful face full of forbearance and grievance, but when she looked at Jiang Li, her face showed a hint of provocation and smugness.
But she quickly lowered her head again, her voice trembling with tears, and said, "Fourth Brother, you...you've misunderstood...you've misunderstood Jiang Li...No...it wasn't her who pushed me...it really wasn't..."
"Xueqi! Although you are not a biological child of the Jiang family, you have been raised in the Jiang family since you were a child, so you are our sister. You don't have to wrong yourself because of blood ties. Some people have to pay the price for their mistakes!" Jiang Chenghao gently comforted Jiang Xueqi, but his gaze towards Jiang Li was filled with disgust. "Xueqi has made concessions for you time and time again, what more do you want?"
“Jiang Xueqi already said I didn’t push her, are you deaf?” Jiang Li looked at Jiang Chenghao as if he were an idiot. “This kind of thing happens again and again. You don’t find it repetitive, but I find it boring and meaningless!”
"Jiang Li! How can you still be so stubborn!" Jiang Chenghao's face turned ashen with anger. "How could our Jiang family have someone like you?"
Jiang Li agreed with Jiang Chenghao's words, "I think so too. How could I possibly be related to a bunch of idiots by blood?"
"Jiang Li!!!"
"Stop yelling, I can hear you." Jiang Li casually picked at her ear. "Jiang Chenghao, the fourth young master of the Jiang family, are you really out of your mind? You're being used as a pawn and you're still so self-righteous. Do you really think you're a loving older brother who dotes on your sister? No, you're not..."
After a pause, Jiang Li continued, "You are nothing more than an accomplice who aids and abets evil and confuses right and wrong."
"You act recklessly, hurting others, yet you still have the nerve to distort the truth here?" Jiang Chenghao said in disbelief.
Jiang Li suddenly smiled, and pointed to a camera on the roof. "That surveillance camera should be able to see this area, right?"
Jiang Chenghao: "..."
"Although I, Jiang Li, am not exactly a good person, I absolutely will not allow myself to be slandered." Jiang Li then said slowly, "In that case, let's check the surveillance footage so that Young Master Jiang can see the truth clearly."
"Jiang Li, Fourth Brother!" Jiang Xueqi quickly called out to the two of them. She said anxiously, "Really, there's no need to check the surveillance footage. This is all my fault. I lost my balance and fell down. Fourth Brother, please don't wrong Jiang Li!"
Jiang Xueqi knew perfectly well what she had done.
She herself admitted that it was better than watching the surveillance footage to save face.
Jiang Chenghao: "???"
Did he wrongly accuse Jiang Li?
He was clearly standing up for Xueqi!
Xueqi clearly looked like she had been wronged.
She said that to exonerate Jiang Li.
Yes, that's definitely what she was thinking.
Jiang Chenghao's expression hardened. "It's just watching the surveillance footage, it won't cause any problems. Let's go watch it now!"
Jiang Chengxi, who had been watching from the sidelines for a long time, spoke up: "Fourth brother, don't go and humiliate yourself."
"Brother, I know you want to maintain harmony in the family, but Jiang Li has gone so far, why are you protecting her?"
"Jiang Li only bullies Xue Qi and brings shame to our Jiang family. Big brother, aren't you always the fairest? What's wrong with you now? Instead of standing on Xue Qi's side, you're saying such things?"
Jiang Chenghao grew angrier the more he spoke.
He just couldn't understand it. Jiang Li had only been here a few days, and she was always doing things that were annoying. How could his older brother...
Jiang Chengxi didn't explain anything. He just said calmly, "Some things need to be seen with your eyes and heard with your heart. But you are blind and heartless, so you won't listen even if I tell you."
"Big brother, what are you talking about?" Jiang Chengzhe frowned in displeasure. "We all saw it. Xueqi rolled down from there. It wasn't Jiang Li who pushed her. Do you really believe Xueqi fell on her own? Do you really believe that?"
"Why are you all fighting amongst yourselves over an outsider like me?" Jiang Li looked at the siblings talking incessantly, then pointed at the security camera speechlessly. "Let's go check the surveillance footage. It will give you all a satisfactory answer."
Since Jiang Li had said so, naturally no one refused.
After watching the surveillance footage, everyone's expressions instantly became quite varied.
Jiang Chengxi had anticipated this, so he didn't show any particular emotional change.
Jiang Chenghao and Jiang Chengzhe looked at Jiang Xueqi with complicated expressions.
If Jiang Xueqi had simply fallen on her own, they would probably have just thought they had misunderstood Jiang Li and wouldn't have thought there was anything else wrong.
But unfortunately...
When Jiang Xueqi fell, her gaze that she deliberately cast towards Jiang Li was clearly captured by the surveillance camera.
That blatant provocation, smugness, arrogance...
This was something that Jiang Chenghao and Jiang Chengzhe found hard to accept at first.
This is their beloved younger sister, Jiang Xueqi, whom they have always doted on since childhood. She has always been so well-behaved and sensible. How could she possibly do such a thing?
But faced with the reality, the two began to question their existence.
"Now that you've seen it, isn't that enough to prove my innocence?" Jiang Li was the calmest person present. "I really don't understand, what's wrong with you guys, a bunch of grown men, ganging up on a girl like me over such trivial matters every day?"
Seeing that Jiang Chengzhe and Jiang Chenghao were both red-faced and silent, Jiang Li continued, "If you were just and wanted to find out the truth, that would be one thing. But you've been prejudiced against me from the beginning, and you've been siding with Jiang Xueqi without reservation. But... what does my business with Jiang Xueqi have to do with you? Why should you interfere?"
"Jiang Li! You are in the Jiang family now!" Jiang Chenghao shouted angrily at Jiang Li again.
"So you mean that just because I'm in your house, I'm supposed to be bullied by you and do whatever you say?" Jiang Li said expressionlessly.
Jiang Chenghao was speechless, but his expression confirmed his statement.
Jiang Chengzhe snorted and said matter-of-factly, "Someone like you, skipping classes every day and not coming home, are we wrong to take care of you?"
"Do you think so too?" Jiang Li looked at Jiang Chengxi again.
Jiang Chengxi shook his head. "We have no right to interfere in your affairs, but as family, we can't treat each other like strangers. There's always a process of getting along between people, isn't there?"
“You’re right.” Jiang Li nodded in agreement, then her gaze sharpened again. “However, we only have three months to get to know each other. After three months, we will have no connection anymore, so we don’t need to work out anything.”
Seeing Jiang Chengxi's displeased expression, Jiang Li slowly finished what she wanted to say, "So... apart from those who are just looking for trouble, everyone else... I'll say it again, unless I've offended you, can you please learn to shut up?"
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